Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to AWS CloudFormation

The top open-source alternatives to AWS CloudFormation are Terraform, Bamboo, and Octopus Deploy. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

Terraform Landing Page
1

Terraform

Tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#DevOps Tools #Developer Tools #Continuous Integration And Delivery 31 social mentions
Bamboo Landing Page
2

Bamboo

Bamboo is a continuous integration and deployment tool that ties automated builds, tests and releases together in a single workflow.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Continuous Integration #DevOps Tools #Continuous Deployment
Octopus Deploy Landing Page
3

Octopus Deploy

Octopus is a friendly deployment automation tool for .NET developers.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#DevOps Tools #Continuous Integration #Continuous Deployment 17 social mentions
Pulumi Landing Page
4

Pulumi

Cloud Infrastructure for any cloud using languages you already know and love.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Freemium
- Free Trial
#Infrastructure Build Tools #Product Deployment #Cloud Computing 12 social mentions
Jenkins Landing Page
5

Jenkins

Jenkins is an open-source continuous integration server with 300+ plugins to support all kinds of software development
Pricing:
- Open Source
#DevOps Tools #Continuous Integration #Continuous Deployment 5 social mentions
Kubernetes Landing Page
6

Kubernetes

Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Developer Tools #DevOps Tools #Containers As A Service 280 social mentions
Ansible Landing Page
7

Ansible

Radically simple configuration-management, application deployment, task-execution, and multi-node orchestration engine
Pricing:
- Open Source
#DevOps Tools #IT Automation #Build And Deployment Automation 9 social mentions
Appveyor Landing Page
8

Appveyor

#1 Continuous Delivery service for Windows
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Continuous Integration #DevOps Tools #Continuous Deployment
Cfengine Landing Page
9

Cfengine

CFEngine is a configuration management and automation framework that lets you securely manage your...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#DevOps Tools #Product Deployment #IT Automation 5 social mentions
Rancher Landing Page
10

Rancher

Open Source Platform for Running a Private Container Service
Pricing:
- Open Source
#DevOps Tools #Developer Tools #Continuous Integration And Delivery 24 social mentions
Packer Landing Page
11

Packer

Packer is an open-source software for creating identical machine images from a single source configuration.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#DevOps Tools #Developer Tools #Continuous Integration And Delivery 9 social mentions
Helm.sh Landing Page
12

Helm.sh

The Kubernetes Package Manager
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Developer Tools #DevOps Tools #Containers As A Service 134 social mentions